Claude keeps stopping.
It's not your fault.
You're paying $100/month for Claude Max and hitting your daily limit before lunch. Your prompts aren't the problem. Claude Code is silently billing you for tens of thousands of invisible tokens on every request — overhead it generates itself, not from anything you typed. Max plan users are running out in under 20 minutes. Anthropic does not show you this breakdown anywhere. The bug is confirmed open and unresolved.
Meter shows you the split: what you actually used versus what Claude charged you behind the scenes. The free tier gives you your burn rate and tells you when your quota resets. For $19 once — no subscription — Meter tells you exactly how much of your daily limit your installed version of Claude Code is consuming before you even type a word. No server. No login.
No spam — one message when Meter ships
// known billing traps meter will detect
Community reports indicate that if the string HERMES.md appears in any git commit message read into a Claude Code session, API requests may be silently routed to "extra usage" billing — bypassing your subscription quota. Multiple users reported $150–$200 drained in a single session; several stated their refund requests were declined. The trigger reportedly persists in any repo where that string has ever been committed. Anthropic has not issued a public response confirming or denying this behavior.
HN #47952722 — 1,247 pts / 532 comments — GitHub #53262 (unresolved)
Community reports suggest Claude Code may scan git commit history for policy-enforcement strings. Users have reported quota bypass or session termination triggered by words in commits that were years old or belonged to frameworks no longer in use. The mechanism has not been confirmed by Anthropic. One commenter noted the pattern could theoretically be exploited via shared documentation; this is speculative and unverified.
HN #47963204 — 1,332 pts / 716 comments (highest single-thread engagement in this class of bug)
Claude Code v2.1.100+ silently injects ~20,000 cache_creation_input_tokens per request. These count against your quota. They do not appear in your context window. Max plan subscribers have reported hitting daily limits in 19 minutes. No native tool separates phantom overhead from user-controlled context.
HN #47752049 — 54 pts — GitHub #46917 (assigned, unresolved)
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